Cuba

Our America?

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POTUS Joe Biden, front and center, participates in a family photo with heads of delegations, including Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, left, Colombian President Iván Duque, second from left, President of Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benitez, second from right, and Panamanian President Laurentino Cortizo Cohen, right,

May 20 Mayo

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I was brought up and taught to treat everyone the same way they treat me, therefore I dedicate my entry to this special date in history.

Cuba Blast

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An explosion at a popular Havana hotel has killed several Cubans and reportedly injured dozens more from a massive gas leak.

Death toll in Havana hotel explosion climbs to 31 as rescuers search for survivors https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2022/05/08/havana-cuba-hotel-…

BREAKING: Powerful explosion rocks Havana hotel, multiple deaths reported bit.ly/38V0g0q

My Island Attraction

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I'm lucky and truly blessed to live in a gorgeous place. I call City Island - A Slice of NYC Paradise, but I was born on another island.

Baseball Grand Slam

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Kudos to Minnie Miñoso, a pioneer Cuban in the Negro League. He played seasons with the Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox.

CUBA Seguro Qué Si

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The Cuban people have been oppressed for six decades by the totalitarian Castro regime and will say Basta and Libertad.

Fidel Castro died five years ago this week, but his menacing shadow and his legacy of oppressing the Cuban people continues.

Those national planned mass protest is demanding their freedom and an end to the communist dictatorship in the Caribbean island.

To follow the developments and do your part to support them and help spread the word to the world. #15NCuba #SOSCuba #15N

Soto San To Soto Zen

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I’m the unicorn journalist with wings and a cyclops eye. I have been affected by multiple news stories, starting with Fidel Castro’s Cuban Communist Revolution in the ’60s, when I became a political refugee after coming to America.  

RIP Gustavo Godoy

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I met Gustavo Godoy when he was anchoring Noticiero SIN with Teresa Abate in Miami when I had been hired as executive producer.

Gus and Tere were a likable and extremely capable Cuban anchor team, but as TV demographics continued to evolve, they made room for Maria Elena Salinas and Jorge Ramos, younger Mexican news anchors that ultimately catapulted Univision into a television news powerhouse.

Our Wedding Pledge

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Eight years ago we were married on City Island - A Slice of New York City Paradise. A year earlier I asked Yirong to marry me at the local NYC beach during the annual July Fourth Fireworks celebrations and extravaganza.

The New Cuban Revolution

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The 26th of July Movement was a Cuban vanguard revolutionary organization and later a political party led by Communist Fidel Castro.